Cement sidewalk construction.



v D. J. CABLE. CEMENT SIDEWALK oousmucnox. APPLICATION FILED MAY10,1909.

Patent ai rrvncc to which it will be seen the member 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J'DANIEL J. CABLE, or PI'r'rsBUnoH, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF '10 JOHN A... HARPER, or PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

. CEMENT SIDEWALK' CONSTfiUCTION.

1 36,187, Specification of Le ter Pa n Patented Aug. 20, 19i2.

Application filed Kay 10, 1909. Serial No. 484,974.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I. Danna. J. CABLE, residing at Pittsburgh. in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania. have inwanted a new and Improved Cement Sidewalk Construction, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a niw and improved construction of cement sidewalk, and it more particularly embodies means adapted to be embedded and interlocked with the top or skimming cement coating of the walk that forms ornamental or other shaped portions for breaking the evenness of the surface of the walk; and which acts to protect pedestrians from slipping on the walk during wet or damp weather.

My invention consists in the peculiar arrangement and correlation of the several parts that constitute the antislipping' means. hereinafter fully described. spccifically pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawinns, in which Figure 'l is a plan view of my invention. Fig. 2. a cross section thereof as emhedded in the cement base and taken on the line t-----tl on Fig. .1. Figs. 35 and -l are rc spcctivcly a plan view and a cross section of another form of my invention hereinafter specifi ally referred to. 4

in the practical applicalion'ot my invention the antislipping mcahs lhat forms an essential fea ure of myinvcntion made of metal. whose upper or tread surfa e is stamped, hent up orcast so as to present parts in different horizontal planes. so arranged relatively that when placeth on the hastor first layer of the cement walk. it receives the final or skimming cement coaling. and part of said coating, vv'hcn'leveled. i will cover or become interwoven with thcl metal surface, whereby to cement lock the l metal memher down in the cement with but l portions of its tread surface exposed, and

in the plane of the tread or upper surface of the walk. he undulating or irregular top 1 surface of the antislipping metal 'memhcrs may he provided for in various ways, for exl amplc. as sho-wn in Figs. 1 and 2 by rctl is shown as shaped up from sheet metal hands 2 that are interlaced to form an ornamcnlal design and are ln'accd hy metal lip I hands 20. In this form only the'clip bands 20 and those portions of the bands 2 Where they intcrlace. lie in the plane of the'.upper surface of the skim ortop coating a, and in this-form. end and side bands are provided for holding the severalcross bands' together.

'Flgsf3 and 4 illustrate a still further ornamental shape of'the tnember l anti'fn this form the said member is composed of metal bands 4 interwoven in a manner similar to that shown in Figs. land 2 but instead of using clip members to brace-the bands 4, long cross strips 40 are interwoven with the crossed bands. such arrangement of the several members providing surfaces partly in the lane of the top surface of the cement coating 00 and partly below the said coating.

From the foregoing, taken in connection with the drawings, the complete arrange; ment, the manner in which my antislipping means is worked in the cement that forms the base and top coating of the walk and the advantages of my improved means described and shown, will be readily apparent.

ll is manifest that the ornamental designs shown may be largely modified and other designs utilized in the practical application of my invention and the design may include representations in the nature of advertisemcnt. or names. I

I am aware that it is a common practice to embed name plates or metallic and other members in cement surfaces to roughen such surfaces. My invention, so far as 1 know ditl'crcntiates from what has heretofore been done in this. art. in the peculiar manner in which the memhcr is constructed, especially with a view o'l presenting an upper surtacc. dittcrcul portions of which are in different planes relatively to earl! other and to the cement top surface.

Having; thus described my invention. what I claim and desire to secure by Letters 'Pa'u 1. In a sidewalk a base layer of cement and surface covering consisting of block lions each of said block sections comprising a set of bounding strips set on edge and a set of interwoven strips held parallel to said hasc. said strips being located wholly within the hounds of said houuding strips and spaced from the planes that contain the upper and lower edges; rcs u-ctively. of'sald liomuliug strips. and other strip membts in the planes of said upper and lower edges,

respectively of said bounding strips and a filling of impervious material embedding said Woven strips and partly embedding said other stri members, said filling having its upper an lower faces lying in the plane of the upper and lower edges, respectively, of said bounding strips) 2 A facing block for sidewalks and the like, consisting of a. metallic structure com.- posed of bounding strips set on edge, a set of strips held flatwise and interwoven with one another and located Wholly Within the bounds of said bounding strips, said inter- Woven strips being spaced from the planes of the upper and lower edges, respectively, of said bounding strips, loops engaging said \woven strips to lie with their upper and lower faees in the plane of the upper and lower edges, respectively of said bounding strips and an impervious filler embeddlng said x'voven strips and parts of said loops, said filler having its upper and lower faces flush with the upper and lower edges of said bounding strips.

GEO. D. TINDnE, J OHN G. SLoss. 

